The Pinterest Cheat Sheet to Image Sizes

Would you like to find the dimensions to all Pinterest images in one place? This Pinterest cheat sheet to image sizes should help you out.

Pinterest has a new look and a new analytics tool. Along with this new look the image sizes have changed. You need to make sure you stay up to date with these modifications so that you have an effective profile. To make this easy I have compiled this Pinterest cheat sheet with all the different image sizes. I have also included the minimum size of a pinnable image to help you optimize your website. Check out the Pinterest cheat sheet to image sizes infographic…

Will you be using the Pinterest cheat sheet to image sizes to create better images? What have been your favourite Pinterest changes? Have you got any questions about Pinterest? Please leave your comments below.

Hi Mitt, Thank you for all your work on this infographic! It’s really helpful and has more information than others. The only thing is that because of that, I need some clarification. I’m not a graphic designer, but I’m getting ready to begin blogging and am trying to learn graphic design so a lot of this is new to me. When you say that the pins in the feed will have a width of 238 pixels and then the expanded width is 735 pixels, will making a graphic that is 735 pixels in width look distorted in the feed? Or will a pin that has a width of 238 pixels look distorted when expanded? Also, a lot of other posts mention that 554 pixels should be the largest width of any graphic without it being distorted. I wonder where that number is coming from and again, which is better to design the width of a graphic: 735 pixels, 554 pixels or 238 pixels?

http://www.mittray.com Mitt Ray

Hi Mary,

You’re welcome. Thank you for your comment.

The image width you choose shouldn’t just be made for Pinterest. It should be good for viewing on your blog. That should be the main aim as if people like something they will visit your website to learn more. Of course optimizing it for Pinterest is important, but in the process you don’t want to spoil the experience for your website visitors.

Wide images look fine when they are compressed to fit inside a pin. If you visit this page http://www.pinterest.com/source/socialmarketingwriting.com/ you will see a few infographics that have been pinned from my website. Some of them are extremely wide and they look fine. And images as big as or smaller than 735 pixels will only look as big as they are when expanded. They won’t be forcefully stretched.